A bright young scientist working at NASA returns to rural India on a quest to find his childhood nanny. He is drawn into village life and finds himself searching for answers to questions of progress and development that the village faces.

In 1947, when the maps of India and Pakistan were being drawn, an oversight ensured that the village of Paglapur didn't find a place in either of the countries. The village had the distinction of housing the largest mental asylum in the region and in the melee that ensued during partition, the asylum inmates broke loose, drove away the villagers and established their own republic in Paglapur. And that's how it stayed for the next 60 years! Now, decades...